Messages by Desiring God

Though our faith is founded on past acts of redeeming grace, the way faith works now is by looking to the boundless fountain of future grace.

The gospel is the good news that God in Christ paid the price of suffering, so that we could have the prize of enjoying him forever.

God reigns so supreme, that he can even turn our deepest disappointments into our greater good.

John Piper | The essence of fasting is hunger for God, and we can forgo food for a season in order to demonstrate that hunger.

John Piper | Communion with God in prayer involves expressing our desires for God and asking him for assistance in understanding and living out his word.

From galaxies to molecules, God rules over all. His power encompasses everything.

John Piper | The sacred Scriptures are the lifeblood of our relationship with God. Don’t disconnect yourself of the restoring, rejuvenating effects of God’s word.

John Piper walks through eight facets of making decisions for the glory of Christ.

God will spread the fame of his name to every tribe, nation, and tongue, but he won’t do it without his people sending and going.

The Holy Spirit wants to assure us that we are God‘s children. All he owns belongs to us — if we suffer alongside his Son.

The unwasted life is a life of pursuing joy in God at all costs, including the sacrificial love that brings people into that joy.

God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.

John Piper | God is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.

Christ calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.

Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.

John Piper | God will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.

God created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.

John Piper | God designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.

John Piper | Three decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.

There is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.

No matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.

John Piper | God’s pleasure in election, the death of Christ, doing good to those who hope in him, and the obedience of his people all stems from his fundamental pleasure in his own excellency.

John Piper | The destruction of the wicked is not ordained by God with the same kind of delight as the redemption of his people, though he is profoundly sovereign over all things.

John Piper | God’s delight in being God consists in his happiness in himself as the triune God and his passion to do all things for his name’s sake.

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